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2014 Books

2014:
This is How You Lose Her (Diaz)
Buried in the Sky: The Extraordinary Story of the Sherpa Climbers on K2’s Deadliest Day (Zuckerman, Padoan)
Remember Me Like This (Johnston)
A Long Walk to Water (Park)
The Book of Mormon
The American Way of Poverty: How the Other Half Still Lives (Abramsky)What We Talk About When We Talk About Anne Frank (Englander)
The Skies Belong to Us: Love and Terror in the Global Age of Hijacking (Koerner)
Clay’s Quilt (House)
A Train in Winter: An Extraordinary Story of Women, Friendship, and REsistance in Occupied France (Moorehead)
The Marriage Plot (Eugenides)
Wild (Strayed)
The Coal Tattoo (House)
A Parchment of Leaves (House)
Thinking Fast and Slow (Kahneman)
All Over but the Shoutin’ (Bragg)
The Razor’s Edge (Maugham)
The Fever (Abbott)
I am Malala (Yousafzai)
Cartwheel (duBois)
Last Hours on Everest: The Gripping Story of Mallory and Irvine’s Fatal Ascent (Hoyland)
A River Runs Through It (McLean)
Tuck Everlasting (Babbitt)
Eleanor and Park (Rowell)
How Will You Measure Your Life? (Christensen)
The Omnivore’s Dilemma: A Natural History of Four Meals (Pollan)
High Crimes: The Fate of Everest in an Age of Greed (Kodas)
In Defense of Food: An Eater’s Manifesto (Pollan)
A Thousand Splendid Suns (Hosseini)
Pride and Prejudice (Austen)
Mrs. Dalloway (Woolf)
Then They Came for Me (Bahari)
Till We Have Faces (Lewis)
The Mermaid Chair (Kidd)
A Path Appears (Kristof and WuDunn)
The Strange Case of Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (Stevenson)
A Short History of Women (Walbert)
The Queen’s Gambit (Tevis)
The Confidence Code: The Science and Art of Self Assurance — What Women Should Know (Kay and Shippman)
Looking for Alaska (Green)
Americanah (Adichie)
The Big Short (Lewis)
The Emperor of All Maladies: A Biography of Cancer (Mukherjee)
Young Money: Inside the Hidden World of Wall Street’s Post-Crash Recruits (Roose)
Can’t We Talk About Something More Pleasant? (Chast)
The Sense of an Ending (Barnes)
The Neon Bible (Toole)
I Feel Bad About My Neck: And Other Thoughts on Being a Woman (Ephron)
Speak (Anderson)
Allegiant (Roth)
Packing for Mars (Roach)
Insurgent (Roth)
Yellow Crocus (Ibrahim)
The Smartest Kids in the World and How They Got That Way (Ripley)
Being Wrong: Adventures in the Margin of Error (Schulz)
Divergent (Roth)
Unaccustomed Earth (Lahiri)
A Separate Peace (Knowles)
The Goldfinch (Tartt)
Escape from Camp 14 (Harden)
Moneyball (Lewis)
Five for Sorrow, Ten for Joy (Godden)
Maus II (Spiegelman)
The Hiding Place (Ten Boom)
Five Days at Memorial (Fink)
Maus I (Spiegelman)
The God Who Weeps (Givens)
Hotel on the Corner of Bitter and Sweet
Still Life with Bread Crumbs (Quindlen)
All Joy and No Fun: The Paradox of Modern Parenting (Senior)
Adam in Eden (Fuentes)
Failure is Not An Option (Kranz)
Touching the Void (Simpson)
The Witness Wore Red (Musser)
A Long Way Down (Hornby)
Sense and Sensibility (Austen)
After the Music Stopped (Blinder)
Little House on the Prairie (Wilder)
The Girl You Left Behind (Moynes)
The Snow Child (Ivey)
I Don’t Care if We Never Get Back (Blatt)
Son (Lowry)
Hidden Girl (Hall)
The Westing Game (Raskin)
Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies (Diamond)
The Mystery of Mercy Close (Keyes)
Those Who Save Us (Blum)
Pedro Paramo (Rulfo)
Lost in Shangri-La (Zuckoff)
A House in the Sky (Lindhout and Corbett)
A Long Way Gone (Beah)
Gathering Blue (Lowry)Harry Potter and the Goblet of Fire (Rowling)
Interpreter of Maladies (Lahiri)
Marathon Woman (Switzer)
Deluxe: How Luxury Lost Its Luster (Thomas)
Daughter of Fortune (Allende)
Running with the Mind of Meditation (Mipham)
Me Before You (Moyes)
What I Talk About When I Talk About Running (Murakami)
K2: Life and Death on the World’s Most Dangerous Mountain (Viesters)
Fahrenheit 451 (Bradbury)
The White Death: Tragedy and Heroism in an Avalanche Zone (Jenkins)
Into Thin Air (Krakauer)
Prodigal Summer (Kingsolver)
Lean In (Sandberg)
The Invention of Wings (Kidd)
This Town (Leibovich)
Sarah’s Key (del Rosnay)
Swamplandia! (Russell)
The Signal and the Noise (Silver)
Mother Night (Vonnegut)
All the Living (Morgan)
Anne of the Island (Montgomery)
Going Clear: Scientology, Hollywood, and the Prison of Belief (Wright)
Empire of the Summer Moon (Gwynne)
Cat’s Cradle (Vonnegut)
The Silent Wife (Harrison)
Voyager (Gabaldon)
Dragonfly in Amber (Gabaldon)
Outlander (Gabaldon)
Anne of Avonlea (Montgomery)
Wonder (Palacio)
Anne of Green Gables (Montgomery)
The Secret History (Tartt)
Bringing Up Bébé (Druckerman)
The Monuments Men (Edsel)
My Sister’s Keeper (Piccoult)
A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius (Eggers)
The Time Traveler’s Wife (Niffenegger)
A Town Called Alice (Shute)
The Known World (Jones)
Slaughterhouse Five (Vonnegut)
The Memory Keeper’s Daughter (Edwards)
Little Children
The Vast Unknown: America’s First Ascent of Everest (Coburn)
A Happy Marriage (Yglesias)
Reading Jackie (Kuhn)
On The Beach (Shute)
Twilight (Meyer)
Dress Your Family in Corduroy and Denim (Sedaris)
Sacred Symbols (Gaskill)
All the Little Live Things (Stegner)
Is Everybody Hanging Out Without Me? (Kaling)
Bossypants (Fey)
The Year of Magical Thinking (Didion)
The Paris Wife (McLain)
Crimes Against Logic (Whyte)
Deep Survival (Gonzales)
Miracle in the Andes (Parrado)
Assassination Vacation (Vowell)
Unbroken (Hillenbrand)

We, the Frosts

We met at BYU in 2007, and got married in May 2009. After graduation, we headed blindly to Kentucky, where Jason completed his master’s degree in Diplomacy and International Commerce and Amanda got her first post-college job, both at the University of Kentucky. In December 2011, we picked up and moved again, this time to the greater DC area, where we are happily working, playing, and eating. This is an oft-time naval-gazing (but isn’t that the nature of blogging?) compendium of our adventures.